News Editorial on the Norman Conquest

Keith Tyler

10/28/98

Who can argue with the natural right of the Normans, and our great Duke William, to claim the land of England above our shores?

We have heard talk that the plans of our men, who are waiting for favorable winds on the North Sea, are the designs of blood-thirst and conquest by a man set only on plunder and world domination. What could be more ludicrous than these accusations?

Those who would discredit the right of us Normans to the throne of England would do well to recall the events of the past decade.

Did not Edward Confessor himself offer William the crown just two years ago? Did not that Usurper, now dishonorably sitting in the throne that is not his, offer to support our Duke as the rightful heir?

And further, did our great Duke not save the life and the honor of this honorless and ungrateful pretender on that fateful visit of his?

When the winds shift, and give favor to our men whose boats point toward the fated Saxon land to the north, England will know the folly of its ways and that of its false monarch Harold.

It is the right of Normans, sealed for us by God Himself in the word of the Pope, to claim our throne on the Angles' land. The French, the Flemish, and even the Bretons, our old enemies, support us in our claim, and in the plans of our Duke.

God save England, for they will soon learn the truth. Perhaps our Duke William will rule them kindly, or perhaps he will rightly treat them with scorn. They will rue the day that they cheated the Normans out of their crown.